rubin5
About

One pair
of hands.

I'm Sean Rubin. I direct and cut every frame that leaves this studio, and there is nobody else here.

I trained at UNCSA, then went through the Kanbar Institute at NYU Tisch and graduated in 2024. Around that I have spent about ten years working in film and television, which is a strange sentence to write at my age, but it is the true one. I started early and never really stopped.

I started Rubin5 to make one thing well. A sizzle built to make a funder feel a project before a frame of it is real. Everything else I have made, the fight campaigns, the political work, the launch films, was practice for the same problem: a room full of people who have to decide on something that does not exist yet.

There is no team to introduce and no account manager between us. If you hire this studio, you get me, from the first call to the final file.

Track record

What I've done.

The whole list, as plainly as I can put it.

Victory Fighting League, Times Square Led the creative campaign for the first officially sanctioned MMA event ever held in Times Square, then a second at Terminal 5. The campaign has run past 300,000 views.
Director, Editor
Kinney Zalesne for DC Led the film work for her campaign for the District's seat in the U.S. House, from early positioning through final ads, across broadcast, social and fundraising. It raised over $250,000 on its first day, reported as possibly the largest single day haul for political office in recent DC history, and $435,000 across the first quarter.
Director, Editor
Anissa Meksen Cut the campaign film featuring the world championship kickboxer.
Editor
Science fiction feature Preproduction art and key posters for a project budgeted at ten million dollars.
Preproduction
Startup launch films Pivoters, shot in Miami. UPPP. Blind Age. Avistar. Venture backed teams across wellness, productivity and social impact, each piece built to speak to investors, users and press at once.
Director, Editor
Period feature, in development Currently cutting a fundraising sizzle for a World War Two period piece.
In progress
Spec work Drink Tempted. All of It, Here, a Mall of America spec.
Director, Editor
Writing Author of the forthcoming novel A Life Unlived.
Author
The name

Why Rubin5?

Rubin5 is named in honor of the 5 Star Ranch, a place of magic and family I visited every Thanksgiving growing up. Though the ranch was sold last year, its spirit endures as a symbol of legacy, creativity, and belonging. Rubin5 is a tribute to my grandfather, whose vision and strength continue to inspire the studio's work and values.

A large family group riding a flatbed wagon up the drive toward the main house at the 5 Star Ranch
The 5 Star Ranch
The main house at the 5 Star Ranch
The main house
Cattle standing in the shade of a live oak in an open pasture
Under the live oak
Cattle grazing in an open pasture with a stock pond and oaks on the horizon
The herd
A bronze of a rearing horse on a stone plinth on the ranch lawn
The rearing horse
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